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1 Corinthians 9:4
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Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?
Haue wee not power to eate and to drinke?
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
Have we not the right to our food and drink [at the expense of the churches]?
Do we not have a right to eat and drink?
Do we not have authority to eat and drink?
Have we no right to food and to drink?
that Barnabas and I have the right to our food and drink.
Don't we have the right to be given food and drink?
Have we not a right to eat and to drink?
We have the right to eat and drink, don't we?
Haue we not power to eat & to drinke?
Have we not the right to eat and to drink?
Don't I have the right to be given food and drink for my work?
Do we not have the right to eat and drink?
Have we not authority to eat and to drink?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Have we no right to take food and drink?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Have we not authority to eat and to drink ?
Have we not authority, to eat and to drink?
Haue we not power to eate and to drinke?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Have we not a right to claim food and drink?
Whether we han not power to ete and drynke?
Do we have no right to eat and to drink?
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
Do we not have the right to financial support?
Do we have no right to eat and drink?
Don't we have the right to live in your homes and share your meals?
Do we not have the right to have food and drink when we are working for the Lord?
Do we not have the right to our food and drink?
Have we not a right to eat and drink?
Have not we power to eat and to drink?
Do we not have the right to our food and drink?
Have we not power to eate and to drynke?
have we not authority to eat and to drink?
Haue we not power to eate and drynke?
have we not a right to meat and drink?
A ramrod has the right to eat and drink, doesn't he?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
we: 1 Corinthians 9:7-14, Matthew 10:10, Luke 10:7, Galatians 6:6, 1 Thessalonians 2:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 3:9, 1 Timothy 5:17, 1 Timothy 5:18
Reciprocal: Leviticus 22:7 - General Nehemiah 5:14 - I and my Mark 6:3 - James 1 Corinthians 4:11 - unto 1 Corinthians 9:14 - ordained
Cross-References
Instead, we should write to them to keep away from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from anything strangled,from anything strangled">[fn] and from blood.Genesis 9:4; 35:2; Exodus 20:3,23; Leviticus 3:17; Deuteronomy 12:16,23; Ezekiel 20:30; Deuteronomy 12:16,23, 1 Corinthians 6:9,18; 8:1; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Peter 4:3; Revelation 2:14,20, 1 Corinthians 6:9,18;">[xr]
So we have unanimously decided to choose men and send them to you with our dear Barnabas and Paul,
to keep away from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from anything strangled,from anything strangled">[fn] and from sexual immorality. If you avoid these things, you will prosper. Goodbye."Leviticus 17:14; Acts 15:20; 21:25; Revelation 2:14,20;">[xr]
For everything God created is good, and nothing should be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,Romans 14:14,20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; Titus 1:15;">[xr]
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have we not power to eat and to drink?] Having proved his apostleship, he proceeds to establish his right to a maintenance as a Gospel minister; which he expresses by various phrases, and confirms by divers arguments: by a "power to eat and drink", he does not mean the common power and right of mankind to perform such actions, which everyone has, provided he acts temperately, and to the glory of God; nor a liberty of eating and drinking things indifferent, or which were prohibited under the ceremonial law; but a comfortable livelihood at the public charge, or at the expense of the persons to whom he ministered; and he seems to have in view the words of Christ, Luke 10:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have we not power - (ἐξουσίαν exousian) Have we not the “right.” The word “power” here is evidently used in the sense of “right” (compare John 1:12, “margin”); and the apostle means to say that though they had not exercised this “right by demanding” a maintenance, yet it was not because they were conscious that they had no such right, but because they chose to forego it for wise and important purposes.
To eat and to drink - To be maintained at the expense of those among whom we labor. Have we not a right to demand that they shall yield us a proper support? By the interrogative form of the statement, Paul intends more strongly to affirm that they had such a right. The interrogative mode is often adopted to express the strongest affirmation. The objection here urged seems to have been this, “You, Paul and Barnabas, labor with your own hands. Acts 18:3. Other religious teachers lay claim to maintenance, and are supported without personal labor. This is the case with pagan and Jewish priests, and with Christian teachers among us. You must be conscious, therefore, that you are not apostles, and that you have no claim or right to support.” To this the answer of Paul is, “We admit that we labor with our own hands. But your inference does not follow. It is not because we have not a right to such support, and it is not because we are conscious that we have no such claim, but it is for a higher purpose. It is because it will do good if we should not urge this right, and enforce this claim.” That they had such a right, Paul proves at length in the subsequent part of the chapter.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 9:4. Have we not power to eat and to drink? — Have we not authority, or right, εξουσιαν, to expect sustenance, while we are labouring for your salvation? Meat and drink, the necessaries, not the superfluities, of life, were what those primitive messengers of Christ required; it was just that they who laboured in the Gospel should live by the Gospel; they did not wish to make a fortune, or accumulate wealth; a living was all they desired. It was probably in reference to the same moderate and reasonable desire that the provision made for the clergy in this country was called a living; and their work for which they got this living was called the cure of souls. Whether we derive the word cure from cura, care, as signifying that the care of all the souls in a particular parish or place devolves on the minister, who is to instruct them in the things of salvation, and lead them to heaven; or whether we consider the term as implying that the souls in that district are in a state of spiritual disease, and the minister is a spiritual physician, to whom the cure of these souls is intrusted; still we must consider that such a labourer is worthy of his hire; and he that preaches the Gospel should live by the Gospel.
